Lesson in expression

BOURNE — The view from the Sagamore Bridge will be changing this spring, with the addition of a mural at the Bridgeview Montessori School.

K.C. Myers

BOURNE — The view from the Sagamore Bridge will be changing this spring, with the addition of a mural at the Bridgeview Montessori School.

The 89 students of the private school, ranging in age from 2 years, 9 months old to 12 years old, have been taking turns painting the panels that will make up a brightly colored mural, said Suzanne Lawson, the school's director of admissions.

When it's complete, it will be about 5 feet tall and 40 feet long. The mural will be mounted on the Sandwich Road school, providing a view from the Sagamore Bridge, Lawson said.

The design was created by Jackie Reeves, a parent at the eight-year-old school and founder of Cape Art Projects for Everyone (C.A.P.E.). She has done murals for the YMCA's Camp Burgess in Sandwich and at the Cape Codder Resort in Hyannis, Lawson said.

The images, of a dove, peace symbol, rainbow and other more specific Montessori education symbols, were all ideas Reeves gathered from the students, parents and teachers, Lawson said.

The town permitting process assured that there will be no advertising, such as the school's name, on the mural, she said.

"The children did a wonderful rainbow that is not cheesy at all," Lawson. "It's really going to be incredible."